In the past week, Cassidy has been quite busy. Cassidy turned 2 months old. She rolls side to side and has started smiling! We haven't been able to capture her toothless grin on camera yet, but we're working on it. My best friend Ellie came to visit for the weekend. We headed down to Aunt Kitty's home for some R&R. Some friends of ours stopped by too. Allison and Ray are former student staffers of mine. Cassidy slept through most of the visit, and upon waking immediately started headbutting mom for food! And finally, Matt had some quality time with Cassidy...
Joining Rites of Passage and Empowerment (ROPE) has been key in helping us find community out here in the Berkshires. No sugar coating- this county is both white, rural, conservative, racist and full of theatre, music, the outdoors, and pockets of loving, open-minded people. Massachusetts may be the most liberal state in the US, but we are far from Boston. Here, minutes from New York and Vermont, the sounds of performative equity can be heard from the tone deaf school administrators who "don't see color" and have voiced that "race was not an issue till we brought it up", to the lack of representation in politics, restaurants, stores, and general day to day. We have lived in places across the country, and have yet to stumble upon a place that felt fully welcoming. I don't say this to complain, it is merely a statement of my lived experience thus far and an acknowledgement of the work it takes as a Black woman to make friends, have meaningful relationships, g...
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